Courses that Count for WGS Credit
All WGS courses and the following courses are approved for WGS concentration credit and the WGS Secondary Field. Of the courses listed below, those offered at Harvard schools outside of FAS (e.g. Harvard Divinity School, the Graduate School of Design, etc.), require a FAS concentration credit petition in order to count towards a WGS concentration or secondary field. The FAS courses listed below do not require a petition.
If you would like to petition to receive concentration credit for a course that is not listed below, please submit a copy of the syllabus with a completed petition to the WGS Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Courses That Count for 2026-2027
| Course Number | Course title | Instructor | Counts For: | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ANTHRO 1906 | Care in Critical Times | Wright | Fall 2026 | |
ROM-STD 182 | Iberian and Latin American Sexualities | Blackmore | Fall 2026 | |
HIST LIT 90HP | Manliness & Civilization | Bloom | History foundation | Fall 2026 |
HIST 164 | Romancing the Archive: Romance Fiction in Historical and Cultural Context | Miles | History foundation | Fall 2026 |
HDS 2693 | Sex, Gender and Sexuality I | Dunning | Theory foundation | Fall 2026 |
GENED 1176 | Sexuality in Literature: From Giovanni’s Room to Fun Home | Schlossberg | Fall 2026 | |
SOCIOL 1206 | Sociology of Family | Fairchild | Fall 2026 | |
MUSIC 195AS | Women Creators in Music | Shreffler | Fall 2026 | |
FRENCH 80BB | Beyond the Binary: Sex, Gender, and Nature in Premodern French Writing | Oliver | Spring 2027 | |
RELIGION 1087/AFRAMER 108 | Black Religion and Sexuality | Green-Hayes | Spring 2027 | |
SAS 171 | Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Cultures | Selby | Spring 2027 | |
CLS-STDY 52 | Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece | Weiss | History foundation | Spring 2027 |
FYSEMR 74I | Gender Politics, Race, and Moral Panics in the World of Sports | Sirvent | Spring 2027 | |
PSY 1009 | Psychology of Women | Noll | Spring 2027 | |
ENGLISH 280QL | Queer and Trans Literature and Criticism | Burt | Spring 2027 | |
HIST-LIT 93AA | Queer Archives | Kaminsky | History foundation | Spring 2027 |
FOLKMYTH 172 | Quilts and Quiltmaking | Lufkin | Spring 2027 | |
RELIGION 1572/HDS 2692 | Sex, Gender and Sexuality I | Dunning | Theory foundation | Fall 2027 |
SOCIOL 1058 | Sex, Gender, and Sexuality | Viterna | Theory foundation | Spring 2027 |
HDS 1505 | Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the New Testament and Early Christianity | Dunning | Spring 2027 | |
MUSIC 194RB | The Idea of Singing | Borowski | Spring 2027 | |
REL 1732 | Women and Gender in Buddhism and the Quest for Social Justice | Gyatso | Spring 2027 | |
PORTUG 62 | Women's Voices in Brazilian Culture(s) | Soares | Spring 2027 |